Your example /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_http -I <ip address> -u http://<url> -w1 -c2
is a proxy request! -I = ip address to connect to -H = HTTP/1.1 Host Header -u = relative url to fetch without protocol infos like http:// some examples check nagios.org OMD[gearman]:~/lib/nagios/plugins$ ./check_http -H nagios.org HTTP OK: HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 54919 bytes in 1.703 second response time |time=1.703114s;;;0.000000 size=54919B;;;0 OMD[gearman]:~/lib/nagios/plugins$ host nagios.org nagios.org has address 96.126.126.159 ok, nagios .org runns on 96.126.126.159 lets check a non existing page. we got 404! OMD[gearman]:~/lib/nagios/plugins$ ./check_http -I 96.126.126.159 -H nagios.org -u /404 HTTP WARNING: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found - 17141 bytes in 0.536 second response time |time=0.536015s;;;0.000000 size=17141B;;;0 lets ask nagios.org for icinga.org ;) and we will get a 302 OMD[gearman]:~/lib/nagios/plugins$ ./check_http -I 96.126.126.159 -H icinga.org -u / HTTP OK: HTTP/1.1 302 Found - 242 bytes in 1.837 second response time |time=1.837209s;;;0.000000 size=242B;;;0 Joerg Am 19.11.2012 um 17:14 schrieb Jaap van Arragon <j.vanarra...@lukkien.com>: > Thank you for your reply. > > I’ve tried the check without the ip adress option but it makes no difference. > > Any other ideas? > > Thanks. > > > On 11/19/12 2:29 PM, "Ryan Edwards" <wyi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You said u are using it like so: >> >> Check: >> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_http -I <ip address> -u http://<url> -w1 >> -c2 >> >> Maybe drop the IP address? I dunno, maybe cuz you have both IP and the url >> its causing problems. Maybe its replying on the IP, but not on the URL your >> providing. You prob only need one or the other if im not mistaken >> >> Cheers! >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Jaap van Arragon <j.vanarra...@lukkien.com> >> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Does anyone know why it gives me a 200 back? >>> >>> If you need more info, I will gladly provide it ;-) >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Jaap >>> >>> >>> On 11/16/12 11:54 AM, "Jaap van Arragon" <j.vanarra...@lukkien.com> wrote: >>> >>> > Hello, >>> > >>> > I’m trying to use the check_http plugin to verify if one of our website is >>> > available. >>> > >>> > When I check our website it gives me a 200 OK status code back even when >>> > the >>> > website isn’t available en the URL gives me a 503 status code through the >>> > browser. >>> > >>> > After some searching I came across the post below: >>> > >>> > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.plugins.devel/485 >>> > >>> > This states that there is a bug in check_http. The only thing is that the >>> > post >>> > is from 2003 so I expect that the necessary changes are already in the new >>> > release. >>> > >>> > Things I’ve tried: >>> > >>> > - recompiled the latest version of the check_http plugin but the necessary >>> > changes seems to be integrated there already. >>> > - updated the plugins package to the latest version for our release >>> > >>> > Check: >>> > /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_http -I <ip address> -u http://<url> -w1 >>> > -c2 >>> > >>> > Packages: >>> > >>> > ii nagios-images 0.5 >>> > ii nagios-nrpe-plugin 2.12-4ubuntu1.10.04.1 >>> > ii nagios-nrpe-server 2.12-4ubuntu1.10.04.1 >>> > ii nagios-plugins 1.4.14-1ubuntu1 >>> > ii nagios-plugins-basic 1.4.14-1ubuntu1 >>> > ii nagios-plugins-standard 1.4.14-1ubuntu1 >>> > ii nagios3 3.2.0-4ubuntu2.2 >>> > ii nagios3-cgi 3.2.0-4ubuntu2.2 >>> > ii nagios3-common 3.2.0-4ubuntu2.2 >>> > ii nagios3-core 3.2.0-4ubuntu2.2 >>> > ii nagiosgrapher 1.7.1-1 >>> > >>> > Does anyone know why it gives me a status 200 OK back? At the moment I >>> > can't >>> > rely on my Nagios checks.. >>> > >>> > Thank you in advance >>> > >>> > Regards >>> > Jaap >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single >>> web console. 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